A team of archaeologists and forensics experts studying the remains of the 'Prince of Helmsdorf,' dated to around 1940 BC, who was discovered in Klopfleisch in 1877, have announced that ‘he was murdered' in what might be the oldest ever ‘political assassination'.
Scientists working in the German city of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, reexamined the prince's skeleton who died 3,846 years ago and they said that some the injuries found on his bones “point to the oldest political assassination in history, probably by the hand of an experienced warrior” according to a report in DW.
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